The new products, sets in recycled cotton, bags in kitchen towel and pouches, are now for sale on line and at the showroom. The dress in antique linen and the reversible cap in antique linen and métis will be soon available as well, I swear…

A little prototype made last summer weared by an Augustin too good to be true ! As weird as it may sounds, I feel like getting some distance from the growing success of my small collection. Since one year, I have been doing fairs without having been able to make pauses for testing new things. Despite a permanent emergency, I need to isolate myself now and get back to work on fabrics and new shapes. That is why, and also because Agnes is going for new adventures and leaves the showroom that I will settle down there with my equipment : my collection of antique linen, my old Singer, ma japonese ruler, some paper pattern and we will see what comes up. I will also look for another roommate for the showroom soon, will speak about it later.

It is not to say, but I was at the inauguration of Michel Gondry’s exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou last week. A series of funny and realistic movie sets to allow the visitors to create their own amateur film in which we have been able to wandering around. Crazy cow, camping tent, bourgeois interieur, homeless shelter, videoclub or river of the Seine, the system is so Michel Gondry : subtil humor, changes of scale, bout de ficelle and a lot of imagination. With in the end, a concert of the band Oui Oui that got together again and played in the hall of the museum till late in the evening. It is good sometime to be parisian.

I really liked one of the three forum of tendancies at Maison & Objet, no need to tell you why. It was an ode for pureness of forms, for simplicity, for peace too, a real space of decompression. Thank you Nelly Rodi !

Making a fair is like dancing all night, there is the night and there is the after. This time, the after has been tough, maybe because making two fairs one after the other comes to double the short nights, the muscular pains and the sandwiches swallowed while running.  Today I still feel a little dizzy and the clients I’ve met since know it, I didn’t completly recover my spirit. But I am thrilled by the people I’ve met on Maison & Objet and Playtime, I will speak about them soon. After having talked about business for so long, I feel like leaning on my sewing machine again. I am in the mood for new prototypes and for having long lies, but this is another story.

Bertille, Armand, Alphonse, Anselme and their new friends will leave Montmartre for Maison & Objet, Hall 6, booth F16, then they will go to Playtime, booth CO4. Si I won’t be very present here these next 15 days. I am going to miss you, but doing those fairs are really an amazing experience. I cant’ wait to be next friday, till then, I am not going to sleep a lot…

There are things which take time, without knowing exactly why… Bertille’s berets in vintage wool are now available in four colours on the online shop. The right accessory to feminize this tall parisian girl that wears very often a pair of jeans.

Last day of holliday, but a beautiful one. I wish you all a very happy new year !

This is what our garden in Saint-Ouen looked like this morning. Thank you for your little words, your encouragements, your messages. It gave me an incredible strength to edge forward in this adventure under your kind look. I started exactly a year ago Les Toiles Blanches without having planned anything and I don’t regret it. 2010 filled me with joy. I wish you a merry christmas !

For the white shirts of Bertille, a big amount of vintage hand embroidered handkerchiefs of men and women.